GAO: Agencies Making FOIA Requests Easier, But Challenges Remain Jun 25, 2018 | 5:37 pm The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today that says Federal agencies are largely following guidelines to make Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests easier to access by making many of the frequently requested documents available online. […]
Air Force Commander Happy to Give Up Space Junk Patrol Jun 22, 2018 | 5:09 pm Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the United States Strategic Command, told House members today that he would be happy to give over the Air Force’s role in providing “situational space awareness (SSA)” services which involve keeping track of many thousands of pieces of orbital debris that have the potential to disrupt satellites and the communications and other critical services they provide. […]
Are Federal Lab Inventions Falling by the Wayside? Jun 20, 2018 | 1:51 pm Inventions that are crafted and patented in Federal laboratories are having a difficult time finding their way into use in the private sector, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]
NASA JPL CTO Forecasts Coming Technology Tsunami Jun 19, 2018 | 5:54 pm The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) isn’t just looking into rockets these days. […]
FedRAMP’s First-Ever Award Winners and Program Update Jun 13, 2018 | 5:14 pm The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) of the General Services Administration (GSA) on Wednesday announced the winners of the inaugural FedRAMP Five Awards at ATARC’s Cloud & Data Center Summit. […]
GAO Report: NASA Must Address IT Management Concerns May 23, 2018 | 1:48 pm A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) this week raises concerns that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) isn’t properly protecting its IT systems. The agency spends about $1.5 billion annually on IT investments to support its missions. […]
Energy Embattled Research Arm Places $100M for ‘Transformational’ Projects Dec 29, 2017 | 1:13 pm Despite an air of uncertainty coming from the Trump administration, the Department of Energy’s research arm is forging ahead with what it calls “transformational research,” putting up $100 million to try to ensure that it doesn’t miss a trick when it comes to potentially disruptive energy research. […]
Energy Department to Release Enterprise Risk Management Framework Nov 1, 2017 | 11:47 am The Department of Energy plans to roll out an enterprise risk management framework that would provide cybersecurity data about the agency in one place and enable better information sharing between departments. “The enemy isn’t a hacker in the basement,” said Micah Czigan, director of the Integrated Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center for DOE. “The enemy is a world power nation-state.” […]
DCIM Solutions Help Agencies Meet DCOI Requirements Oct 25, 2017 | 8:54 am In order for agencies to meet Data Center Optimization Initiative requirements, many are choosing Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions to help them visualize what’s going on inside their data centers. “We were looking at optimization before DCOI and DCIM was cool,” said Pruitt Hall, project manager for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s DCIM implementation. […]
The Most Important Technology Trends: A Robotic Ambassador Sep 28, 2017 | 9:16 am In the third article in a series about the most important technology trends, Tom Soderstrom and Mik Cox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory focus on how to engage the next generation. […]
The Most Important Technology Trends: Part 2 Sep 21, 2017 | 10:28 am In the second article in a series about the most important technology trends, Tom Soderstrom of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory focuses on the key technologies that will deliver maximum benefits, especially when used together. […]
The Most Important Trend: Evolving How We Work Sep 14, 2017 | 8:50 am In a new series, Tom Soderstrom, the CTO at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses the future of technology: how work evolves, key technologies, and how to engage the next generation. […]
Industry Insider Jul 14, 2017 | 9:06 am MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]
The Situation Report: What NASA Can Teach Us About Government’s Innovation Potential Apr 19, 2017 | 2:57 pm The government doesn’t need “nongovernment culture” to improve cybersecurity. What it needs is to recruit a workforce with a long-term vision of service and innovators driven not by the prospect of living a life of success but of living a life of meaning. Nowhere is this more apparent than at NASA. […]
NASA on Course to Meet FITARA Data Center Requirement Mar 30, 2017 | 9:05 am The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will probably make the 2018 deadline to optimize its data centers, according to Karen Petraska, program executive for computing services at NASA. […]
Trump Signs Bill Directing NASA to Promote Women in STEM Feb 28, 2017 | 5:21 pm President Donald Trump signed a bill directing NASA to encourage women and girls to pursue fields related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. […]
NASA Uses Existing Servers to ADAPT to Big Data Needs Feb 10, 2017 | 10:04 am The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Center for Climate Simulation processes reams of data that are as dense as music playlists containing 190,000 years’ worth of songs. […]
Internal Assessment Helped NASA With FITARA Improvement Dec 19, 2016 | 3:57 pm Renee Wynn, chief information officer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said that the agency’s internal Business Service Assessment can account for its improvement in IT management. […]
NASA Gives 13 Universities Space Tech Research Grants Dec 19, 2016 | 9:31 am Thirteen universities recently received grants from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants Program worth as much as $500,000 each. The goal of this program is to accelerate the development of space technologies in their earliest stages to enable future systems capabilities and missions for NASA, other government agencies, and the commercial space sector. […]
Agencies Differ on the Need for Speed in Cloud Adoption Nov 2, 2016 | 2:24 pm The speed of government cloud adoption and authorization is both good and bad, depending on which agency is asked, according to panelists at Dell EMC World. “Some of the slowness works to our advantage,” said Annette Moore, acting director and acting CIO at the NASA Johnson Space Center. “In instances it certainly does not.” […]
Speed is Essential to Get to Cloud, IT Modernization Oct 26, 2016 | 3:12 pm Tony Summerlin, who helped write FedRAMP, said he envisioned the program as a much quicker and sleeker version of what it is today. He says speed is one of the biggest challenges to Federal initiatives across the board, not just in the application of FedRAMP. […]
Small Satellite Initiative Aimed at Innovation Oct 21, 2016 | 1:17 pm The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the creation of the Harnessing the Small Satellite Revolution initiative, which will work to use small satellites for innovation and exploration. […]
Cancer Moonshot Report Outlines the ‘Key’ Role of Data Oct 17, 2016 | 4:21 pm In his Monday report on the status of the White House Cancer Moonshot, Vice President Joe Biden listed big data and data sharing as key components in today’s fight against cancer. […]
Industry Insider Sep 29, 2016 | 4:00 pm MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]
White House Supports Partnership on Climate Data Sharing Sep 22, 2016 | 11:59 am The White House launched the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) and Joint Declaration on Harnessing the Data Revolution for Climate Resilience to use open data to combat climate change. […]
Small Companies Prep for Phase 2 of NASA Program Sep 12, 2016 | 12:06 pm Phase 2 of NASA’s Small Business Technology Transfer program has begun. […]
Colo. Company Supports NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Return Sep 9, 2016 | 10:33 am The Sierra Nevada Corporation of Louisville, Colo., will be supporting NASA’s first U.S. asteroid sample return mission. […]
Lockheed Martin Among 6 Preparing for NASA’s NextSTEP to Mars Sep 6, 2016 | 10:11 am Over the course of 24 months, six tech companies will build a habitat suitable for humans to live in on Mars under NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2). […]
Industry Insider Sep 1, 2016 | 3:19 pm MeriTalk begins a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Stay up to date on everything that’s happening in the Federal Information Technology community. […]
Doubts Arise Over Recent NASA Hack Aug 3, 2016 | 4:08 pm A recently discovered hack on NASA data that exposed username and password information of the agency’s employees is actually a copy of information that was exposed in 2013, according to NASA. […]